2007/12/18, James Crow <<a href="mailto:james@ultratans.com">james@ultratans.com</a>>:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
You might want to check the list archives for Canon PIXMA driver<br>support. I have the MP160 and it is supported. There is driver that<br>works in CVS. It may also include support for your printer.<br>Start here: <a href="http://home.arcor.de/wittawat/pixma/">
http://home.arcor.de/wittawat/pixma/</a><br><br>Thanks,<br>James</blockquote><div><br>There's exactly where I looked. Here's a quote from that site:<br>"<table summary="Status" border="1"><tbody><tr><td colspan="8">
Unknown protocol: These devices don't work with
this backend and there is no easy way to add supports because they use
a different command set which has to be analyzed first. Co-programmers
are welcome! :-) I personally cannot do this because I don't have the
devices.</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>MP110</td>
<td>4A9:1700</td>
<td>1200</td>
<td>N</td>
<td>N</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>N</td>
<td>unsupported</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MP130</td>
<td>4A9:1701</td>
<td>1200</td>
<td>N</td>
<td>N</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>N</td>
<td>unsupported</td></tr></tbody></table>"<br><br>I saw that someone wrote here about the MP110. Maybe the MP130 can use the same driver?<br><br>Anyway,
the site I referred to when I first wrote, suggested that someone could
write a backend to this and other unsupported drivers and it also said
that it is not a very hard thing to do for people who know a little C,
for example. Well, since I have studied C a long time ago, I thought
that maybe this isn't very impossible after all, but I guess I will
need some help to get me started. I don't know where to begin, kind of.
I don't even know exactly how a driver in general works... I need some
basic knowledge to get started, and I just thought that someone here
could give me some kind of clue where to start or some links that
explain things...
<br><br>What do I need (except a C compiler and the scanner)?<br>Can
the fact that I also have Windows XP with a working driver be of any
help? Is there some kind of software for Windows that can give me any
clues about how the MP130 works?
<br><br>Yes, I can do some C programming, but I need to know what I
need to do... otherwise it's kind of being told to create a schoilkus
program in C without also being told what a schoilkus program is (in
this case nothing since I just made it up...).
<br><br>Johnny Rosenberg </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 19:30 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
<br>> 2007/12/10, Epostlistor <<a href="mailto:gurus.knugum@gmail.com">gurus.knugum@gmail.com</a>>:<br>> I visited <a href="http://www.sane-project.org/contrib.html">http://www.sane-project.org/contrib.html
</a> and readed<br>> about<br>> contributing to the project - Writing a Backend (Driver).<br>><br>> The page said that "You don't need to be an experienced<br>> programmer.
<br>> Backends are usually written in C, so some basic knowledge of<br>> this<br>> language helps. You need a lot of patience, however,<br>> especially if you<br>> can't get programmer's documentation from your scanner's
<br>> manufacturer."<br>><br>> I learned C many years ago and I still think I remember most<br>> of it, but I<br>> am not programming very much these days. I am writing here
<br>> because I think<br>> I need all the help I can get. Maybe someone is already doing<br>> this, then I<br>> might be able to contribute in some way. If not, it feels like<br>
> there are a<br>> lot of things I need to know. Maybe there are similar backend<br>> drivers out<br>> there that I can get inspiration from and learn how to write<br>> things like
<br>> that.<br>><br>> I have the Canon PIXMA MP130 and my operating system is<br>> GNU/Linux Ubuntu<br>> Studio 7.10. I also have a small partition with Windows XP, so<br>> I can use
<br>> the scanner that way, but of course I want to use it with<br>> Ubuntu. At the<br>> moment I can only use the printing function with Ubuntu, but I<br>> needed to<br>> install additional software before that was possible.
<br>><br>> Is there some kind of software for Windows that can "scan"<br>> what's sent and<br>> received to/from the MP130 while scanning etc? I guess that<br>> would help
<br>> somewhat.<br>><br>> My idea is to write a very basic driver just to make it<br>> possible to scan<br>> with no fancy features (which are pretty useless anyway in<br>> most cases).
<br>> Some things, like basic image editing, is better done with<br>> dedicated<br>> software, such as GIMP, I guess.<br>><br>> So, any comments to this? Will this task be too tough for
<br>> someone like<br>> me..?<br>><br>> Johnny Rosenberg<br>><br>><br>> Okay, seems like nobody's interested in this, so I guess I'll just<br>> skip the idea and buy another skanner instead. Besides, I guess that I
<br>> would have failed doing this anyway.<br>><br>> Johnny Rosenberg<br>> --<br>> sane-devel mailing list: <a href="mailto:sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org</a><br>>
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